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But if this is all a bit steep price-wise, how about showing your love of the flightless Antarctican in mug form?

Though many species — such as the moa, a giant flightless bird, and the Haast's eagle, with its impressive 10 - foot wing span — have gone extinct since European settlers arrived, countless others remain, such as the kakapo, the world's heaviest parrot (which is also flightless) and the tuatara, a reptile that was a contemporary of the dinosaurs and is now the last of its kind.

DODO birds were all birds of a feather... flightless feathers!

A sexless marriage is like a flightless bird, or an eggless omelette, or a rose without scent... It just doesn't seem right, and it's...

Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system, has a certain fondness for penguins — the mascot for Linux is Tux the penguin — and has joked that he caught penguinitis, a strong affection for the flightless bird, after getting nipped by one at the National Zoo & Aquarium in Canberra, Australia.

The official roundel (circular logo) of the New Zealand Air Force features the kiwi: an indigenous but distinctly flightless bird.

For a holiday that revolves around a flightless bird, it's ironic how much Americans spend on travel for the Thanksgiving holiday.

It was bad enough that this irreplaceable species, Raphus cucullatus, was quickly driven to extinction in the 17th century thanks to man's folly — the flightless birds that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean were last seen in 1662 — but the poor things have also suffered the fate of a maligned legacy.

«As a popular, yet flightless bird, we penguins are used to disappointment.

Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are flightless seabirds found almost entirely in the Southern Hemisphere.

Across a 10 - day period of observation, we documented between four and six individual polar bears successfully capture at least nine flightless lesser snow geese (Chen caerulescens caerulescens) and engage in at least eight high - speed pursuits of geese.

Stéphanie Jenouvrier, a biologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the US, and colleagues from France and the Netherlands report in Nature Climate Change that changes in the extent and thickness of sea ice will create serious problems for a flightless, streamlined, survival machine that can live and even breed at minus 40 °C, trek across 120 kilometres of ice, and dive to depths of more than 500 metres.

And we are not talking about the dowdy little flightless birds that scurry about on the forest floor at night.

Try flight of the penguins: As if our flightless - fowl friends haven't had enough to deal with of late, the warming of the Antarctic Peninsula during the past few decades is also forcing penguin populations to migrate south.

During the summer of 2017 Coates travelled to Fogo Island to ask for an official apology to be given the Great Auk, a flightless bird once numerous around the island, but extinct since 1844 due to excessive hunting.

A floor up is a selection of drawings, videos, and installations which continue the theme of flightless birds as a metaphor for rural - to - urban migration.

As part of the presentation, Square Enix finally let us see the game's versions of Chocobos, Final Fantasy's flightless avian mounts.

And how can these nearly flightless birds appear so quickly?

For example, every Final Fantasy has scenes where the player rides on airships or horse - sized flightless birds called chocobos.

Laura, Robert, and the flightless pigeon Peck embark on an adventure to find the legendary last wind monk for protecting Asposia from a new threat...

Publisher: Nintendo Platforms: 3DS After Pit's reveal as a playable character in «Super Smash Bros Brawl» in E3 2008's trailer, fans have speculated that Nintendo would announce a game featuring the usually - flightless angel.

Melee cared enough to give a trophy for the flightless angel back in 2001 with a simplistic, cartoonish design that seemed inline with his sprite and the sensibilities of fellow obscure NES representatives, the Ice Climbers.

While Pit was flightless in the original game, here he is aided by Palutena, the goddess of light, who uses her divine powers to help him soar above the world below.

Of course, he has some great company: Peck, as loyal as he is flightless, and Laura, a rebel who certainly does fly, but only off the handle and who is Robert's love with a capital L, by the way.

This large flightless bird can be found in the rainforest surrounding the area and is fascinating to watch.

Leading a prominently solitary existence, this regal, flightless big bird roams the rainforest and coast of Tropical North Queensland but is so elusive that often the only sign that they truly exist, is literally, a sign.

Snorkel with sea lions and observe flightless cormorants.

Upon request, Artisans of Leisure can arrange additional activities such as playing golf, biking through the vineyards, visiting a colony of gannet seabirds, a tour of the Cape Kidnappers sheep and cattle ranch, fly fishing on local streams and visiting a kiwi habitat in search of New Zealand's famous flightless birds.

Known as one of Tropical North Queensland «s most scenic beaches, Etty Bay is truly where the rainforest meets the sea and it's where you can spot Australia's largest flightless bird, the Southern Cassowary.

The island is known for being the one - time home of that most famous of extinct animals, the poor old dodo, and while there's no hope for the flightless feathered one, Mauritius is home to a wealth of tropical wildlife, with efforts being made to protect and preserve local biodiversity.

Snorkel with sea lions and observe flightless cormorants, so unthreatened by predators that they have lost the ability to fly.

Admire a variety of seabirds, such as blue - footed booby, brown noddy, terns, flightless cormorant and depending on the season, a large number of Galapagos penguins.

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Having no introduced mammals, Fernandina has a unique environment with the highest density of marine iguanas, sharing their space with sea lions, sally light - foot crabs, hawks, penguins and the flightless cormorant.

After the hike, along the shorelines you may find flightless cormorants and see penguins while snorkeling in this beautiful cove.

See the biggest marine iguanas mingling with sally - lightfoot crabs, as well as flightless cormorants nesting sites, Galapagos penguins and the «King» of predators on the islands, the Galapagos hawk.

This is the nesting place for flightless cormorants, the only existing marine birds in the world other than penguins that have changed their mode of flying birds to diving birds.

Keep an eye out for the native Buff Weka, a small, flightless bird with boundless curiosity!

We motor to the rocky islets known as «Las Marielas», where a colony of nesting Penguins, Flightless Cormorants and giant Marine Iguanas are found.

There are chances to observe the Southern Royal Albatross, Northern Giant Petrel, Auckland Island Shag, Auckland Island Flightless Teal, Auckland Island Banded Dotterel, Auckland Island Tomtit, Bellbird, Pipit, Red - crowned Parakeet, Yellow - eyed Penguin and Light - mantled Sooty Albatross.

Divers can move into the shallows at Cabo Douglas to see diving Galapagos penguins, marine iguanas, flightless cormorants and sea lions.

Here we spot flightless cormorants and marine iguanas.

As you would expect from an island with unspoilt terrain, Stewart is home to many species of bird including 20,000 of the endangered brown kiwi, the flightless Stewart Island kiwi and the nearly extinct kakapo parrot.

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Flightless geese, giant mice, and pygmy mammoths are extinct, while the island fox, spotted skunk, and munchkin dudleya (one of six plant species found only on this island) still live here.

In evolutionary terms, the flightless birds, or ratites, were some of the earliest types of birds to develop.

The thick Quaternary deposits on the island's northern sector have all yielded fossil evidence of mammoths, giant mice, whales, sea otters, and an extinct flightless goose.

This wildlife - filled archipelago, hundreds of miles off Ecuador's shores, has long tempted thrill - seekers and photography enthusiasts with its pods of sea lions, flightless cormorants, the world's only seafaring lizards, and short - feathered penguins that dart casually across the equator.

This modern - day Eden is home to a plethora of plants and animals, including the Kakapo — the world's only flightless parrot.

You can go diving with sharks there,, being surrounded by hundreds of hammerhead sharks or even just snorkel with the insanely unique animals including white - tip reef sharks, sea lion, Galapagos penguins, marina iguanas, flightless cormorant, and much more.